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Henry Purcell (1659-1695): An Evening Hymn Upon a Ground. Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor.
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- Опубликовано: 3 апр 2020
- Please DO have your kids listen to Purcell, especially now they might have more time during Covid-19 confinement. He's the Lennon/McCartney of his Age. I assure you, they will just get it.
Here we have French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky and European early music group L'arpeggiata in a really quite beautiful arrangement, by theorbist Christina Pluhar, of English composer Henry Purcell's reflective "An Evening Hymn upon a Ground" (Z.193). The closing "hallelujah" section is especially beautiful.
I have always felt that the jazz and Baroque idioms work well together, especially with the fertile harmonic opportunities offered by a ground bass, as here. Jacques Loussier, for example, fused Bach with jazz brilliantly, in a way which broadened Bach's audience considerably. Wendy Carlos did a similar service to Bach in her Moog synthesizer "realisations", although she seems nowadays, sadly, to be on an express train to the Booby Hatch.
From the Album liner notes:
"Just how modern Purcell’s harmonic language is, and how timeless his use of ground bass, is no secret. Today’s pop, rock and jazz musicians and film-makers have found constant inspiration in
his musical inventions. Pete Townshend of The Who declared in 2009 that Purcell was a strong influence on the band’s music of the sixties and seventies - echoes of Purcell’s harmonic language
feature notably in ‘I Can See for Miles’, ‘Pinball Wizard’, and ‘Won’t Get Fooled Again’. ’What power art thou’, the song of the Cold Genius in King Arthur, became one of the show pieces of
the cult New Wave singer Klaus Nomi, who recorded it as ‘Cold Song’ in 1981.
Purcell originally wrote the piece for a bass, but since Nomi’s interpretation a number of countertenors have taken it into their repertoire. In 2009 the English singer-songwriter Sting included ‘Cold Song’ in his album If on a Winter’s Night; in 2013 the actress and singer Arielle Dombasle added a beat to it and performed it on video naked in a coffin.
Purcell has often made appearances in film scores. The composer Wendy Carlos adapted the march from the Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary for synthesiser in Stanley Kubrick’s A Clock work Orange (1971). Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Downfall (2004) uses Dido’s lament ‘When I am laid in earth’. The soundtrack of Joe Wright’s Pride and Prejudice (2005) includes a piece entitled ‘A Postcard to Henry Purcell’ in which Dario Maria nelli makes use of Purcell’s Rondeau from Abdelazar. Benjamin Britten’s variations on the same theme in his Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra feature in Wes Craven’s Moonrise Kingdom (2012)".
Text (by Dr. William Fuller, then Lord Bishop of Lincoln)
Now, now that the sun hath veil’d his light
And bid the world goodnight;
To the soft bed my body I dispose,
But where shall my Soul repose?
Dear, dear God, even in Thy arms,
And can there be any so sweet security!
Then to thy rest, O my Soul!
And singing, praise the mercy
That prolongs thy days.
Hallelujah!
Images (not by me)
Henry Purcell; Christina Pluhar (theorbo); Philippe Jaroussky; Chet Baker; Philippe Jaroussky.
Performers
Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor
L’ARPEGGIATA - European early music group:
Christina Pluhar - theorbo, Director and arranger
Doron Sherwin - cornet à bouquin
Veronika Skuplik - baroque violin
Julien Martin, Marine Sablonnière - recorder
Eero Palviainen - archlute, baroque guitar
Marcello Vitale - baroque guitar, chitarra battente
Sarah Ridy - baroque harp
David Mayoral, Sergey Saprichev, Michèle Claude - percussion
Boris Schmidt - double bass
Haru Kitamika - harpsichord, organ
Francesco Turrisi - piano, harpsichord, organ, melodica
Special guests
Gianluigi Trovesi - clarinet
Wolfgang Muthspiel - acoustic guitar & electric guitar
From the Album:
"Music for a While - Improvisations on Purcell"
(Erato/Warner Classics (P)
Lovely rendition of a piece by Purcell which sounds as if it could've been written last year. Truly timeless!
La Vie est compliquée mais si Belle....this is why every cell vibrates, why we are Alive....the best Hallelujah to keep us up and running and brave for the post Covid19 world to come....ps the old and the new sometimes blend well and yield great results...
Beautiful..
I hope people will respond to your plea to let the kids listen. What children hear, they will grow to like. This is quite beautiful. Thanks for it at this time. Keep well.
Likewise Jonathan, thank you.
What informed and interesting notes for this recording thank you. Love L’Arpeggiata and saw them live (in New Zealand), but sadly not with the exceptionally beautiful Jaroussky. This is a graceful pairing of Purcell and jazz touches.
What Musical Beauty.
Bravo!!
Maravilhoso!!!
Ten percent Purcell, ninety percent bad taste. Where has that very moving, intimate, comforting evening prayer gone?
The aim of this album isn’t to replicate Purcell to a T, but to bring to listeners another way of interpreting his music. Everybody has the right to like it ...or not.